Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday (17) as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100
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Sri Lanka plans to set up ‘infant receiving counters’ to take in unwanted newborns, Minister for Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment Geetha Kumarasinghe said in the wake of several incidents that included infanticide
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Sri Lanka’s medical technicians and support staff will engage in sick note campaign for 24 hours on Wednesday (8) demanding higher wages to match inflation and withdrawal of an essential service order, a union official said
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Sri Lankan workers went on strike Wednesday (March 1) in defiance of a government ban to protest a rescue plan for the bankrupt island nation, forcing the closure of hospitals, banks and ports
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Sri Lanka’s poorest of the poor, their lives devastated by economic collapse, may face a killer blow soon: a crippling of the public health system
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Japan has granted 46 million US dollars to Sri Lanka for the purchase of 20 million litres of diesel for public hospitals in the crisis-hit island nation
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Nearly one in four Sri Lankan adults – 23%– and one in three adults or 31% in the Colombo district had diabetes while another one in three  had high blood sugar levels in 2019, according to a large scale national survey jointly conducted by…
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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday (20) rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing six people and sparking fresh panic after a February 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries
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Tens of millions in China headed to their rural hometowns for Lunar New Year celebrations Thursday (19), though President Xi Jinping said he was "concerned" about the countryside's ability to weather a Covid surge
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Nurses across England began two days of strikes over pay on Wednesday (18), threatening fresh disruption for patients in the creaking state-run health service, as new figures showed inflation still surging
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